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Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 24 April 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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This episode is part of our special 5-part series about moms in honor of Every Mother Counts. Christy and I recently spent an unforgettable Saturday afternoon talking to the singular force of nature that is Spike Lee about his mother, Jackie, who died when Spike was a sophomore at Morehouse College. Spike has 134 directing credits over four+ decades, in each case imploring us to Wake Up. Here’s a chance to understand something about the development of this legendary voice. Please share. (Previously aired) This series hopes to raise $100,000 to support safe and respectful pregnancy, delivery and postpartum care in 9 countries through Every Mother Counts, founded in 2010 and led every day since by Christy Turlington Burns. Please join us with a donation here. Maternal health is a human right. https://everymothercounts.org/donate/ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to a very special series about mothers.
0:08.9	Today's guest is Spike Lee, the director, the actor, the professor.
0:13.8	He is friends with my co-host, Christy Turlington Burns.
0:17.7	They are both rabid Nix fans.
0:20.8	And Christy and I launched this series to bring
0:24.6	attention to the great work of every mother counts. I had a life-changing trip to Tanzania this
0:31.7	spring where I got to see and learn about the kinds of things that happen to women during pregnancy, labor, delivery,
0:39.8	and their postpartum period that can ruin the life of a family.
0:45.5	Much of maternal mortality is preventable.
0:48.9	We have cracked the code.
0:51.0	There are a lot of devoted experts on the ground working in nine different countries,
0:56.8	including the U.S., using dollars raised by every mother counts. And so after seeing all this work,
1:04.4	I thought, I wonder if the Kelly Corrigan Wonders listeners would join me in making a donation
1:10.1	in honor of mothers everywhere
1:12.1	to Every Mother Counts.
1:13.9	If you would like to be one of those people, I would be so grateful we're trying to raise
1:17.6	$100,000 through this campaign.
1:21.0	And you can just go to everymothercounts.org slash podcast.
1:25.1	Okay, without further ado, here is my conversation with Christy Turlington Burns
1:30.5	and Spike Lee. So Spike Lee, tell us three adjectives to describe Jackie.
1:41.8	Oh, my mother, She was a great teacher.
1:46.0	She taught at St. Anne's in Brooklyn Heights under Stanley Bosworth, educated.
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